Tuesday, June 21, 2016

More on Donald Trump's Attack Tactics: He Aims At The Mirror.

If the US presidential elections weren't about a pretty serious business (global survival and shit) I'd so enjoy the macabre humor that keeps cropping up!

Well, I think it's macabre. Your mileage might vary.

Take Trump's political tactic which is a twisted version of the old Republican strategy: attack the strength of your opponent. It's a twisted version, because Trump first assigns his own political weaknesses to his opponent, then attacks them. That makes a weird kind of sense, since the relativeabsence of those Trumpish weaknesses is, of course, Hillary Clinton's strength.

Donald Trump questioned Hillary Clinton's faith on Tuesday, claiming
there's "nothing out there" about the former secretary of state's
religious beliefs, according to a video captured by a conservative
minister.

The video, taken by E.W. Jackson,
a minister and former Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in
Virginia, appeared to show part of Trump's private meeting with
evangelical leaders in New York City. Trump went on the attack during
the conversation, saying there's no information out there about
Clinton's faith. "Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet
there's no — there's nothing out there,” Trump says in the video.
“There's like nothing out there."

That is not just true, that there would be "nothing out there" about Hillary Clinton's religious affiliation. I have been unable to avoid seeing references to it, starting from the 1990s.

But what I have not seen, at all, are public references to Donald Trump's religion, whatever it might be. Some Playboy mansion version of the Manly Man Christianity, with perhaps occasional polygyny allowed? I must admit that imagining the evangelical Christians and Trump as political bed-mates is just delicious.

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